Take your pick of three Golden Vale farm holdings
There’s something for everyone on offer, provided they have fairly deep pockets, as the smaller of the properties is 103 acres and the largest is 237 acres.
This is a roadside farm at Charleville and there should be strong interest, because farms of this size coming for sale are rare in Munster .
With a Cork address and a Limerick location, the Kilcolman, Milford farm comes with a fine two-storey residence and land on either side of a public road, which means good road frontage.
The property is being auctioned on May 30 for the representatives of John Mullins, and is expected to make around €2.5 million.
The farm is excellent Golden Vale grazing land, says the agent, divided into 137 acres on one side of the road, including the residence, and 70 acres on the other.
The farm is easily managed, laid out in fields with a central roadway, with piped and natural water supplies. The property can be sold in lots, says Phil Purcell. It’s likely to be bought by incoming farmers with development or road money.
A second property on his books, at Balinscaula, Bulgaden, in Kilmallock, (where there has been a significant amount of sales of late) offers 162 acres of prime grazing land.
All in one block and all under grass, fully reseeded, the farm is a modern operation with a central farm roadway and paddocking, and is one of the finest farms in the area to come for sale in some time, says Purcell.
It’s been well looked after, he adds, and would be suitable for cattle or horses, he says.
Which could be handy, as J P McManus lives next door, and he might be in the market for this property.
But the agent says it will appeal to farmers right across the board, all over Munster, as those keen to continue in the industry go for better and larger farms. Those who haven’t got deep pockets, but still want to farm, are looking abroad, he says.
Phil Purcell gives no guide price for the Balinscaula farm, and says he’ll leave the market decide at the auction on June 6.
The final farm on the agent’s books is a former dairy farm at Killacolla, Ballyagran, Kilmallock which is a turnkey operation, according to the agent.
“You only need to press the button to start,” he says, referring to the eight-unit milking parlour with recording jars that’s set up and ready to go. The farm would particularly suit a farmer with quota who has been forced to move through road, or other development work.
Kilmallock has a strong dairying tradition, he says, and you wouldn’t see a tilled field for 12 miles.
The farm also has a spacious, modern bungalow residence, and an extensive yard.
It has a cubicle house with capacity for 100 head, a four column hay barn, two silage pits and good quality calving boxes.
The land incudes an 83-acre division which includes the house, as one lot to be auctioned on June 13.
Mr Purcell will also offer a ‘fine, high dry field’ of five acres which would make an ideal house site, he says, and a 14-acre block which would be suitable as a small hobby farm.
Or the farm can also be sold in the entire. It has a guide price of €2 million, prior to auction.
